A/N:

Sorry guys. I know the whole world is in quarantine and I should have a lot more time to write but I work IT and work from home which is no different than working in the office cause I have piles of work. I just minus out the annoying coworkers popping in and out and count on my son needing me between going to his father's room for playtime and needing a snack before nap time and a 9 hour shift becomes a 14 hour shift. So...I apologize.

And for those that do read the other two separate story lines, I do plan on updating those too. Drowning Lessons has three chapters I need to finish tweaking and they will be posted soon. As for The Affair of the Sun and Moon, I have the chapter brainstormed but haven't yet put it together so that will be done soon enough. Thank you all for still being supportive and continuing to read!

Chapter 32:

Katara was a bit disappointed when Ozai took off his outer robe and tossed it over her to cover her up. His hands laid on her shoulders as he squeezed them, staring her dead in her eyes.

Shaking his head, "I'd literally have your legs spread and over your head with no hesitation if I were my old self but I can't. You're still married and as much as I wish you weren't and I hate your stupid husband, I'm trying to be good." He told her as if he wasn't just trying to convince her but also convince himself. He dropped his head and hung it. "I'm trying to be a better man. I really am. And you're making that very very hard."

Giggling as she moved his hands from her shoulders and pulled them around her waist as she wrapped her arm around his neck, letting his head rest in the nape of her neck. Nuzzling him, Katara ran one hand over his back.

"I'm sorry if I'm a temptress." She giggled.

Scoffing as he lifted his head from her shoulder, "The worst kind." He said as his hand then grabbed her ass and squeezed it. Making her jump.

Katara pulled away and playfully slapped him, "Hey, you're the one that makes it so damn obvious you want me."

"I do and I don't mind toying around with you but until you're not his wife, you're not getting-" he whispered the rest in her ear as he pulled her to him. She flirtatiously laughed as he moved his hands along her backside before nibbling on her ear. Fuck, I can't do this. I need- and she wants me. Agni, damn it!

"I change my mind." He said as his breath heated against the skin of her neck and nearly caused her to melt as he pulled the robe he threw on her off. "I'm going to make you scream my name, waterbender."

Shaking her head as she pulled away and smiled at him, covering herself with her arms as she played coy. "But I thought you were a good man...and I'm a married woman. It would be immoral for you-"

"I'll be good another day. Right now, I need to be bad."

Ozai scooped her up so quickly she didn't even have time to react as he forced his mouth on hers. The only thing she could do was kiss him back and drink him in. La, she wasn't going to take no for an answer. She'll be a temptress all day long if it got her what she wanted and so desperately needed. It literally ached between her legs from merely being in his presence. She needed him to fix this heat he caused to brew in her.

Carrying her to his bed, Ozai threw her down and stared her down as she laid there. He didn't know what she thought was going to happen here but she was going to learn soon not to test him.

"I advise you to gag yourself with the sheets." Ozai told her as he removed his robe and was unbuttoning his shirt. "I have every intention of having everyone in the palace hear my name leave your lips."

And it was the wicked grin that tugged at his lips and the way his hair fell over his chiseled chest, spilling just at the v-shape of a man's body that slipped just beyond his pants. It couldn't be helped that Katara was biting her lip in anticipation as her ex-husband grabbed her ankle and pulled her to the edge of the bed. She wanted this. Fantasized about this.

When he tore her silk undergarments, Katara grabbed him, pulling him down on top of her. Clearly, she didn't plan to waste time.

"I need you." She said breathlessly in his ear before biting it and pulling away to capture his lips again.

"Oh you needy, woman." He eyed her intensely as she bit his bottom lip and slowly let go, eyeing him back as she moved to his neck. "I'm going to fuck you into a coma." He growled before taking over.

….

It was only natural that a girl Kya's age would be fascinated by her own body. She was a teenage girl vastly approaching womanhood. This was normal. The most normal Hama had ever seen from the girl and she felt a level of pride to know that her great granddaughter was finally treading on the exploration of her body and hopefully thank the heavens that she was shaped like her side of the family. Petite and wide hips. With a perfectly round ass, Hama grinned to herself.

However; as Hama got a better look at her great granddaughter, a dark burn mark covered the girl's upper left of her chest. Furrowing her brows as she pushed the door open from spying on her and made her presence known to fold her arms as she eyed the girl through the mirror.

"You should have taken care of that, child." Hama gestured at Kya's chest.

Kya turned around to look Hama directly in the face, unapologetically naked and unbashful as she simply glanced down at her scarred breast. "Azula did this to me when she and Lao's people stormed our palace. I can't be healed."

Hama scoffed and stepped forward to her great granddaughter, "Too bad. Now your father won't be able to marry you off to some prince. A lovely face like yours will go to waste."

Grabbing her robe from off her vanity mirror, Kya turned her back to Hama. "The prospects of marriage don't interest me. Especially not seeing how that worked out for my parents." She said buttoning up her robe.

Honestly, Hama couldn't blame the girl. Her parents weren't the best examples of a good marriage.

"Besides, I don't have a face to woo men like my mother." Kya glances down seldomly remembering how she told her mother off earlier that day.

Hama felt a small tingling amusement at her great granddaughter's remark. She went up to the young teenager and circled her, when she stopped in front of her, she tapped Kya's chin to get her to lift it.

"Listen to me, girl. You've got a beautiful face. Thank both your parents for that. But your best assets are that you're not a wooer. You're unfriendly and skeptical and you're powerful enough to fend for yourself. You have the makings for being a survivor and in this world that's going to get you farther than you think." Hama told her great granddaughter as she beamed down at the girl proudly.

There wasn't a lot Hama was proud of. She had made so many mistakes and done plenty of terrible things that would keep her up at night. She was an awful mother and even worse grandmother but she would try to make up for it now.

Right now, Hama knew Kya was upset with her mother at the moment and that was normal for girls to clash with their mothers. But she needed to know the cost of being born a woman in this world and a beautiful woman at that.

…

Sitting in his lap with her arms around his neck, Katara passionately kissed Ozai as they were in the middle of his bed, completely naked. Her fingers tangled his hair with one hand as the fingers on the other brushed against the skin of his back. Kissing him was like drinking water and she felt dehydrated. Desperately desiring more and more.

Having to slow her down, Ozai took her by her jaw. "Why are you trying to rush this? Wouldn't it be best if we take our time?"

With the look of lust and looking, Katara tried to be patient. But she felt so needy. La, she needed this. Needed him. And she was sure he felt the same. Having had to wait for her all these years.

"You're getting carried away." He told her as he brushed her hair out of her face.

Katara smirked as she stood up in front of him and grabbed the back of his head, forcing his face into her crotch. She then forced him to fall back as she sat on top of his face, taking his hands to squeeze her breasts and ass, all while riding his face.

Gripping a patch of his hair, the waterbender bit her bottom lip as she looked down at his gold eyes that narrowed up at her. "Remind me what that tongue of yours does again."

…..

Zhiar was training with his uncle in swordplay, learning the footing and the movements. Clearly, using a dagger was much different than a sword. It took more upper body strength and required far more control with its length. Fortunately, his uncle coached him through it as he fumbled a bit. He really liked having an uncle. Someone that wasn't caught up in the feud of his father and stepfather.

"You're quick." Sokka said excitedly. "Must get that from your mother."

"Really?" Zhiar replied as he pushed back at his uncle's assault.

Grinning as he was impressed, "Yeah, she was always good at picking up things. She was quick and a fast learner. I bet that's how she adapted so well in the Fire Nation. Found out she had a lot of supporters amongst the common people. Even to this day, Zuko says they love her."

I never thought they liked her. Zhiar remembered all the jokes and things people used to say about his mother. They were so harsh and cruel to his mother, he used to hate being seen around with her. He would easily deny her if people didn't already know his mother was her. The waterbender that betrayed her people to be Fire Lady. Maybe there were some that liked her. Maybe some outside the aristocrats.

They continued sparring until Hakoda showed up and asked to speak with Sokka. Zhiar took a break and swept the sweat from his face as he watched them talk off to the side. He noticed immediately the look on his uncle's face shift as his grandfather became increasingly frantic.

"What the hell is she thinking?!" Sokka hissed as he pulled at his hair.

Shaking his head as he held his hand to his temple, "I don't know but Arnook says if he finds its true-"

"If?! He will because we both know it's true! You've seen them both! Ozai is obvious as all hell and Katara's not making it any better by fighting with Arnook!" Sokka shouted before his father grabbed him and pulled him close.

Whispering, "Listen here, there is nothing we can do to stop your sister or Ozai. They're not going to stop seeing each other. But we have to protect your sister, so Arnook cannot find out."

Sucking his teeth, Sokka hissed and groaned. "Damn it!"

Zhiar had picked up on their conversation and as the two walked back to him, he confronted them.

"I've seen them together." Zhiar said casually. "Mom sneaks away whenever she gets the chance just to see him. The servants, me, Kya, Hama, even Zuko, we all know it and we don't say anything to Arnook. But they need to stop. It's wrong and my father has put my mother up to enough wrong already."

Sokka and Hakoda sigh as they look at the boy.

"I'm not breaking your parents up, Zhiar." Hakoda says to both his son's and grandson's surprise. The older of the three exhales softly as he takes a seat beside his grandson and gazes down at his hands. "I've seen your mother do whatever people told her to do, whatever that was expected of her, and do for everyone but herself. And as wrong as it is, I remembered the way she looked at your father on her wedding day to your step-father and how she had chosen his arms to fall asleep in. If she's seeing him in secret because she wants to, I'm not getting in the middle. It's not my place to judge her. Just protect her like I should have done, like I'm supposed to do."

….

Tasting herself off his lips, Katara holds both sides of his face as she lays on top of him. She nips at his jaw and moves to his neck, working her way down.

When her tongue reached his chest, she immediately attacked one of his nipples and he pushed her head down to get her to go lower. She giggled and went down to where he wanted her. There she found that massive member he called his cock. She took it in her hand and started pumping it like she had done before.

Ozai sat up a little to watch her toy with his member, resting on his elbows as Katara experimented with what she thought would get him off. And Agni, she was quick to find what pleased him. He didn't know if she was just incredibly horny or if she was acting purely on instinct but whatever it was, he didn't want her to stop.

After stroking him a bit, Katara glanced up at him to stare him dead in his eyes as she went to drag her tongue along the shaft of his dick. Running it from the base to the tip where she then opened her mouth to take it in. It took a few experimental goes at using her mouth before she could figure out what worked to please him. She watched his face to see his reaction to what she was doing and it seemed when she gagged his eyes nearly rolled back. So maybe if she did that with a little more of the hard sucking she did at the head of his member and she could get him to cum.

"Katara! Fuck!" Ozai hissed as he threw his head back and grabbed her hair at the top of her head.

Agni, he was convinced. She definitely wanted it. Likely deep in that little tight warmth she had between her legs and pounding it as it got wetter and wetter, until she split all over his-

"Fuck!" Ozai gripped her hair even tighter, holding her head right there as she drank his thick hot cum. Her piercing blue eyes looked up to see he was looking at her with a primal look in his eyes. Oh, he was going to get her for this. She was a goner.

….

Hama typically visited Ozai for a drink, few laughs, and a scolding at this time of night. However; as she approached the corridor that led to his chambers, the water siren was stopped by the guards that had been placed there. She smirked and decided to work her feminine charm.

"Hello, boys." She greeted them as she went to one and slid her hand up his chest as she eyed the other guard.

Clearing his throat as he tried to remain professional, "Hama-"

"Lady Hama, Rinji." She corrected him as she moved to him and his fellow guard eyed them.

Trying not to make eye contact with her, "Lady Hama, his majesty, Phoenix King Ozai is currently tending to other matters at the moment. He told us to see to it that no one disturbs him." Rinji told her.

Circling him as she grinned at him, tracing her hand along his waist. "Very well. I guess I will be spending my evening alone." She wicks at Rinji as she pulled away and sways her hips suggestively as she leaves.

"Rinji, please tell me you didn't get suckered into that." The other asked him.

Scoffing, "No." Rinji didn't sound too sure. "I just escort her from time to time into the city. That's all."

The other guard eyed him, not feeling too confident his friend wasn't totally bagging the palace harlot.

As she was heading back to her quarters, hoping that guard caught onto the 'subtle' hint she dropped him, Hama turned the corner and hurried and pulled herself back to where she had come from immediately. She then poked her head back out as she saw Arnook and her son, Shin, conversating. Narrowing her eyes at them, she tried eavesdropping to figure out what was going on.

"Lao is not happy with this sudden shift of things, Arnook." Shin shook his head with reprimand as his arms were folded. "Your only job was to make Katara more cooperative and you've failed. Her memories have returned, her bending is only slightly weaker, and she's even more aggressive. Lao can't do anything with Katara if she is like this."

Arnook scoffed, "You were supposed to deal with Ozai, which was no help."

"Correction, I was supposed to watch him. Observe. You were supposed to be involved with your assignment, which is why Lao told you to marry her!" Shin hissed in frustration. "What's so hard about wooing one woman?!"

"Katara's not like that and you know it, didn't you have to rape her?"

"And I'll do it again if you don't get the job done!" Shin threatened.

"Do what you want! That bitch probably has her legs spread for Ozai right as we speak!" Arnook growled. "It's why I chipped her with Phoenix bane. He'll likely hurt her as he loses to instinct. It'll set her straight."

…

"Fuck!" Katara cried as she clenched the sheets above her head, breathing heavily when Ozai entered her. She glanced down and saw he wasn't even in all the way. "Oh fuck! Just get it over with." She told him.

Ozai asked if she was sure and as soon as she told him yes, he covered her mouth with one hand and then thrusts the rest into her. He saw her eyes widen as she screamed into his hand. If she were a virgin, he would have given her a moment to adjust but he knew she could handle it and therefore, didn't wait for her before pulling out to thrust back in.

The waterbender squeezed her eyes shut. Fortunately, the pain of the initial invasion subsided and she lifted her hips to meet his. Her whimpering turned into moans and his hand finally moved from her mouth, replacing it with his mouth. Katara wrapped her arms back around him, embracing him as he thrusted into her. His hand holding one of her thighs apart to get better leverage.

Ozai sinking his teeth into her neck as he started pounding her little pussy. Hearing her moaning in his ear as her nails dug into his back, sent him into animalistic drive. Sucking hard on her neck as he held her down with his weight. Between her calling out his name and the sound of their colliding sex, Ozai was intoxicated with lust. He had nothing else in mind. He didn't care if someone were to walk in here and see him fucking his waterbender. It wasn't going to stop him.

Fuck! He hissed. She was getting wetter the more plunged into her. Filling her up with his girth. He could feel her walls tightening around him as he pushed himself in and out. It was as if her pussy had a mind of its own. Coercing him into thrusting harder into it. This little cunt wanted to be brutalized and fortunately, he had every intention of beating it until it was sore.

"Ah! Ozai! I'm cumming!" Katara shrieked in his ear as he was literally smashing into her sex. Ramming into her like he was taking his frustrations out on her.

It was deafening. Her screaming. Sound faded from his eardrums as his hand slipped around her neck as he maneuvered himself to lean off of her where only his lower half was pressing her into his bed. Ozai saw her clawing at his chest as he squeezed the sides of her neck. He felt he was literally losing his mind as he couldn't even hear her voice. All he knew was her nails were drawing blood from his chest as he choked her harder.

…..

Hakoda was glad he was getting to spend some time with his eldest grandson. He hadn't gotten as much time with him as he had with his younger grandchildren. So it was nice to finally get to see the kind of young man his oldest grandson was turning out to be.

The former Chieftain watched as his son and grandson play fought as they were making their way to Kya's chambers. Hakoda figured his aloof granddaughter would like to be included in their family activities.

But as they approached, they noticed Hama peaking around the corner of the next hallway. She turned to see them and quickly placed her finger to her lips.

The three of you! Hush!

Both Hakoda and Sokka winced at the telekinetic speech from the water siren. They weren't used to it the way Zhiar was as he was unaffected.

What is it? Zhiar asked as he walked up to her.

Hana looked from Zhiar to his grandfather and uncle. Seems Arnook isn't who we thought he was. She said as she turned back to peaking around the corner. The other three decided to do the same thing and as they did, they were shocked at what they had to hear. Hama was right, Arnook had them all fooled. And Zhiar was especially disturbed to hear Lao's name mentioned from his stepfather. He remembered it was said that Lao's men were the ones who stormed the palace shortly after he and his mother were brought here.

Pulling Zhiar away, Hakoda looked to his son and Hama. "We need to go. Whatever else there is to hear here, we'll need to get Ozai involved."

Hama nodded in agreement.

Zhiar just looked mortified and Sokka saw this.

"Come on, Zhiar. I get you feel betrayed but we need to act now and talk later, okay?" He tried telling his nephew.

Zhiar nodded and hurried with them to leave the scene.

…

Catching her breath, Katara held her throat as she saw Ozai sitting at the edge of the bed with his head in his hands. He had gotten carried away and almost killed her. Luckily, she was able to stop him with her bloodbending. But she wasn't upset. If anything, she felt seriously turned on that he would lose himself like that. To the point that he almost strangled her to death.

Crawling up to him, the waterbender wrapped her arms around him from behind and pressed her lips to his cheek.

"I'm okay, Ozai." She told him.

Shaking his head as he pulled away from her, "No. I almost…" turning to look at her. "I almost killed you."

"It's fine." She told him as she tried pulling him back into bed with her. "Just come back to bed and hold me, okay?"

Climbing back in bed with his waterbender, Ozai let her bring him down beside her, to which she wrapped her arms around him. Holding his head to her breasts as she ran her hands through his hair and curled against him.

"You didn't hurt me, okay?" She whispered. "Plus, I think I came a few times because of it, so we'll definitely need to do that again."

Ozai shut his eyes, "We're not doing that again."

"Then can I be the one that does the strangling?" She asked in a joking fashion.

Opening his eyes all just to eye her, "Why are you making light of this? You almost died."

Shrugging as she smirked at him, "if you're going to sulk for the rest of the night, how about you let me put you to sleep, sound good?"

Rolling his eyes, Ozai went back to shutting them as Katara continued to comb her fingers into his hair. It wasn't long before he fell asleep and Katara followed suit.

In the morning, Katara was snuggled up under Ozai's arm with her face buried in his chest, snoring softly. They were tired. Having spent the entire night together, they were able to sleep soundly. Until he felt himself stir and becoming increasingly aware of the waterbender pressed to him. He tried not to be alluded to her, especially while she was sleeping but when she rolled on her back, his slightly opened eyes caught a glimpse of her dark nipple. He immediately felt himself stiffen in where he laid.

Fuck! He swore when he heard a small moan escape her slightly parted lips.

Katara soon stirred from her sleep and when she did, she saw Ozai's eyes on in a very predatory fashion.

"Oz-"

An hour and twenty six minutes later after having cum quite a few times already, Katara found herself still being fucked into the bed. She was on her back, holding her hands above her head to the headboard as he held the lower half of her body hostage. Literally, pounding his thick length into her dripping wet pussy. She didn't think she could want more after already experiencing the bliss of several orgasms but it wasn't enough. She felt greedy and selfish. She wanted every inch, encouraging him to give her more to which he gladly obliged.

Thrusting himself into his waterbender, he held her waist in both hands, Ozai couldn't keep his eyes off the way her face contorted in pain and pleasure or the way her breasts bounced the harder he thrusted into her.

"I'm cumming!" Katara gasped as her eyes widened. La, she felt she was going to completely turn to liquid.

Ozai ran one of his hands up her stomach, past her breast and to her neck where he squeezed it. "Cum hard for me, waterbender!" He ordered her.

And she did. Only he didn't expect her to cum so hard that she squirted all over him causing him to lose his grip and cum as well. He hissed through his teeth as he continued thrusting into her.

"Gods, Ozai!" Katara panted as Ozai finally pulled out of her and fell over beside her. "What did you make me do?"

Laying on his back as he looked at her, Ozai could see her face was flushed and she looked embarrassed.

"What?"

"I'm still...you know." She said rolling over in her stomach and folding her arm under her head as she glanced at him bashfully. "Needy." Katara buried her face in her arms.

Rolling on his side, Ozai slapped her ass and grinned when she yelped.

"Give me a few minutes." He said kissing her cheek intensely before sitting up in bed.

Katara rolled over and pulled the sheets over her as he climbed out of bed. She watched him walk butt naked over to where they threw his robe last night and picked up it. She had to admit, she enjoyed the view. Ozai looked over his shoulder at her and smirked as she pulled the sheets to her face.

"Seems like you can't wait much longer." He said slipping on his robe and then fluffing his hair from under his collar. "How about you come bathe with me and I can sate that appetite of yours now."

Katara nodded her head as she smiled behind the sheets.

…..

When Ozai was dressed and fixing up his hair into a topknot, Katara came up beside him in the dress he just gifted her with and grinned as he saw she looked absolutely beautiful in it. The light soft blue kimono with cherry blossom embroidery and long tulip sleeves had hugged her waist perfectly. The bright red color of her obi sash brought out the undertone of her complexion. She had braided her hair into a fish tail and wore it over her shoulder.

Smiling up at him as she twirled, "I like it. It's comfortable and very pretty." She smoothed her hands down over the material of the dress and smiled wider.

"I had an entire wardrobe made for you." Ozai told her as he continued to marvel at her. "I told you I would wait for you till Arnook was either dead or got rid of you. I prepared to take you back as my wife, as my queen."

Katara suddenly looked back up at him as her smile slowly swept away, "Ozai...you said you would mov-"

Sighing as he moved his hands to clasp behind his back as he walked around her. "Ask your father, I tried but I can meet thousands, millions of women and none of them would be you. I know what I want and I can't settle for less. You were everything I wanted in a woman that I never thought I'd find and I didn't care how long I'd have to wait, I knew I'd have you back. I have all the time in the world."

Katara turned around to him, reaching her hand to his clasped ones behind his back. She laid her hand on top of his and he unclasped his hands to hold hers with one, pulling her around to stand in front of him, the waterbender sees he's smiling at her.

"I know you don't wish to go from one marriage back to another. If you need the time, I'd gladly wait." He told her.

Shaking her head, "I don't need time, Ozai, to think about being your wife but I'm not thrilled about being queen."

Moving his hand to cup her face, "You made an amazing Fire Lady."

Dropping her gaze, Katara sighed and thought about the memories from her time as Fire Lady. She remembered the constant fear for her life and needing to always be on her toes. It was the one thing about the North Pole she loved. No one was politically ambitious enough to step out of place. If anything, politics was a burdensome thing and no one cared about it. It was the one thing that gave her peace of mind there.

Ozai reassured her that things would not be the same as before. She had already proven herself and those they were loyal to him had followed him back here with the expectation that she would one day take her place at his side again. Besides, the world knew what she was and just as they knew of his power and feared him, they'd do the same with her.

Listening to him explain to her how he believed she had so much untapped power and how no one could get in their way again and stop them, Katara thought for a second he was referring to gods.

Pulling her closer to him as he took her by her chin, forcing her to look up at him, "Be my queen, Katara." He whispered before leaning down to capture her lips with his.

Katara moved away from him, "Let's deal with Arnook first and then we can discuss the details of us."

Disappointed, Ozai sighed. "Fine but I'm going to pretend you said yes." He told her.

The waterbender laughed as she turned her back to him and started heading off. "Alright, well I need to get going before we get found out." She said with a quirky smile over her shoulder.

The Phoenix King watched as her fishtail braid swung side to side as the waterbender left his chambers. Sighing, Ozai decided it was no time like the present to get started on his plans.

…

"I was just about to send my servants for you." Ozai says as he looks up to see Hakoda entering his office, taking large strides as he came to his desk. But something about the urgency in his approach caught Ozai's attention and he was now concerned. "What is it?"

Hakoda sighed and shook his head, "Arnook is working with some former Fire Sage named Lao. He married Katara as a part of whatever plan or deal he made with this Lao person."

"WHAT?!" Ozai growled dangerously as he stood up abruptly.

Relaying the rest he heard, Hakoda told him that Hama had heard more and that he was sure Zhiar might have overheard something last night after retiring to his chambers. Ozai furiously told Hakoda to go get everyone.

As Hakoda left to do so, Ozai turned to the firepit to summon Zuko. They needed to deal with Lao and whatever he was plotting.

….

A little while later after taking some time to herself to get her thoughts in order, Katara is on the balcony of the city view court garden when she saw something in the sky. She squinted her eyes when she saw the object in the sky come swooping down towards her. It was a dragon. Her lips curled into a soft smile as she saw a person on the back of the dragon holding a baby in a satchel close to their chest.

The dragon came down and circled above her head as she gaze up at it in awe before it finally was able to land safely in the courtyard. Katara came running up to the dragon with a bright wide smile as she laughed happily.

"Zuko!" She shouted happily as she came to the dragon's face and placed her hand on its nose.

The dragon made a grumbling sound in its throat as she patted it as if to say hi.

Katara watched a woman slide off the side of Zuko's back with the baby in a satchel she held close to her and she looked so relieved to finally be on the ground.

"Your majesty, do you think it necessary to fly so fast with the child on board?" The servant asked, crouching to the ground to steady herself.

Zuko began to shrink from his massive size and then revert to his human form, laughing as he did. Once in his partial human state, still sporting some of his scales, claws, and fangs.

"Ryu seems to have liked the ride." Zuko said, seeing that his son was giggling.

Getting up, the servant looked to Katara and suddenly felt a little shy. She bowed her head in respect to the waterbender.

"Lady Katara, it is good to see you are well after all these years." The woman said.

Katara was still smiling as she approached the servant, "You know me?"

"I served you under Fire Lord Ozai's reign." The servant says, "You may not remember me but I was one of Madam Kimiko's ladies, Tomoe."

Smiling, "And you look after Ryu?"

"Yes, Fire Lord Zuko has trusted me with being the caregiver of his heir." Tomoe remained bowing her head.

Zuko stepped forward to Katara, "She's of the few that know you are Ryu's mother. Only those loyal to the bloodline know."

"Zuko, I thought we agree-"

"My lady, we are deeply grateful that you have bore not only the children of former Fire Lord Ozai but the child of Fire Lord Zuko as well. There is no woman more suited than you." Tomoe stated.

Katara sighed and looked from the servant back to Zuko, "What brings you back so soon after leaving?"

Grinning, Zuko walked up to her and hugged his arms around her waist, pulling her to him. Nustling his head to hers as he breathed in her scent and held her tighter.

"Is it wrong that I want to see my son's mother?" He asked her.

Chuckling while hugging him back, "Zuko, why are you here?" she wasn't falling for it.

Pulling apart, the Fire Lord looked her over and smiled warmly as he removed a loose strand of hair from her face. "Father asked me here. Says there might be trouble."

"Oh did he, now?" Katara seemed skeptical.

"It's true, my lady. Phoenix King Ozai abruptly interrupted his majesty's bonding time with Prince Ryu through the fire pit and demanded he come quickly." Tomoe spoke up.

Katara furrowed her brows at Zuko, asking him how long again was that. To her surprise it was about four hours ago and Zuko had left almost immediately afterward. He sure traveled fast as a dragon. Far faster than appa did.

"I'm guessing you two were discovered." Zuko said.

Scoffing, "Arnook has no solid proof but Ozai has a plan. Maybe that's what your father wants."

"So you're seriously going to leave Arnook?

"We'll see but I'll leave your father to talk more about it. I just wanna see my baby!" Katara said as she reached her arms out to the servant who was taking Ryu out of the satchel and handing him to her.

The Fire Lord watched as his son lit up upon his mother holding him, "I'll leave you to spend time with him while I go speak to father. Tomoe, stay with Katara and Ryu."

Tomoe bowed, "Yes, your majesty."

….

Ozai was surprised Zuko had made it here so quickly but he figured his son felt it had something to do with Katara and rushed here. If it weren't for the fact that Zuko's fondness of Katara worked in his favor, he would probably be offended.

"More power than any living being on this earth and you want my help." Zuko said as he sat in his father's office with his arms folded over his chest. "Not that I won't offer it, I'm just confused as to what you expect me to do."

Looking over at Hakoda, "Tell him what you told me."

The former Southern Chieftain explained to the Fire Lord what it was they had overheard. Arnook working with Lao and using Katara as a means to achieve whatever the ultimate goal was. Hama added that from the sound of things, Arnook had been working with Lao for some time. Possibly not long after Ozai's execution.

Zuko furrowed his brows as he looked wide eyes at them both, "That bastard! Now it makes sense why he so easily forgave her for running from him the first time!" He growled.

"Calm your loins, Zuko. No need to get emotional because you got conned out of your chances to hump Katara for the rest of eternity." Ozai said as he waved his hand around. "We need to think rationally and clearly. Because we have an opponent that has carefully thought this all out and we're only just now catching onto them."

Hama nodded, "Tell us, you were the only person close enough to Katara and the case of Lao. You know more than we do. Did anything stand out to you during the entire seven years Katara was with you?"

The Fire Lord sat there thinking it over. Was there anything that stood out to him? Honestly, he'd need some time to think it over. Possibly assess what all took place back then. All he remembered was that Katara was having a meltdown the entire time. She was miserable. She couldn't get a grip even when he could tell she desperately wanted to.

Sighing as he shook his head, Zuko could think of nothing that stood out too much to him. All he could relay to them was what he discovered not long after Katara left for the North Pole.

Ozai stroked his beard as he listened to his oldest son explain what took place with the Fujioka brothers. Yoshiro and Daikoku. Fire Nation supremacist that wanted to turn the Fire Nation people into inhumans in order to dominate the other nations.

"If they are supremacist, doesn't it go against what they want if they're making deals with the North Pole and targeting a waterbender?" Hakoda was a little confused here.

Shrugging, "Anyone that actually buys into that supremacy shit is a moron. Every group has its faults. And I doubt they'd go this far if this was truly their goal." Ozai seemed to suspect there was more to the story. "Lao arranged for Katara to be kidnapped and brought to me as my wife. The whole time he and other Fire Sage had put her up to the task of assassinating me. They played sides. Why? And why Katara? This isn't about Fire Nation supremacy, this is more and it has to do with inhumans because even Hama was tied in with him. As well as Shin."

"And Suzumi." Zuko recalled.

Feeling a little lost here, "The closest we're going to get to any of this is going to Katara. Surely, she might-"

"Absolutely not!" Ozai hissed at Hakoda. "You love your daughter, Hakoda?"

Furrowing his brows, "How dare you even ask that?! Of course I do!"

"Then leave her out of this!" Ozai warned.

Scoffing as he stood, "Why?! Her life's in jeopardy and you want to keep her in the dark!"

"Yes." Ozai said simply as he eyes Hakoda coldly, lacing his fingers into one another. "Katara's dealt with enough. We're the ones that were supposed to protect her and we've failed. This is our time to make things right. We leave Katara out of this. Give her what little peace of mind we can."

They all agree with this. Even Hakoda.

"And the children?" Hama asks.

Running his temple, "Kya and Zhiar are at the age their mother was when she joined the war effort and older than Zuko when he was banished. Though we are supposed to want better for our children, I don't want my children being the spoiled little brats they've become. They will contribute to the cause for the sake of our families. Time they grew up." Ozai says.

"Spoiled would be an understatement." Hama remarked.

Zuko seconded that with a humorless chuckle to which Ozai eyed them both and rolled his eyes.

"But I must ask one question." Hama raised her hand up as if to be called on. "Arnook said he chipped Katara yesterday with the Phoenix Bane so when you engage in...intercourse, you'd accidentally cause her harm due to a loss of control…is she harmed?"

Ozai glared at Hama as she played innocent with a curious look in her eye. This question caused both Zuko and Hakoda to look at Ozai strangely.

"It only works if they have intercourse, right? Well, dad and Katara haven't-"

Hama shut Zuko up with a pointed stare and Hakoda caught on to this.

"You've got to be fucking kidding me!" Hakoda slammed his hand down on the Phoenix King's desk.

Hama laughed as Zuko side eyed his father and shook his head, "You couldn't wait to get her in bed, could you?"

In Ozai's defense Katara was the one that came onto him and was the more eager. But he wouldn't put her out there like that. He would just accept that they believed he seduced her and that Katara had not literally sat her nicely round ass on his face….not that he was complaining.

….

After having a word with both his son and daughter about the issues and problems they were all soon to face, Ozai had a private word with Zhiar as the boy had felt completely betrayed by Arnook.

Zhiar was sitting on the edge of his bed when his father came to sit down beside him.

"This whole time...he was lying to us...lying to me." Zhiar stared blankly at the floor. "He made me believe you meant me and mom harm. I believed him."

Scoffing, "You're gullible. You fall for anything if someone sounds convincing enough."

Ozai tells him what happened when he showed back up in the picture. Reminding his son how he bullied his sister for being a waterbender and calling his mother a stupid waterbender all because people at his academy were racist towards the Water Tribes. He fell for Arnook's bullshit the same way.

"I'm not going to convince you of shit. I leave you to figure out what you want to believe and not believe. Am I good or bad? Who the fuck knows? I don't. I do what I want and as I like and sometimes that makes me a bad person and other times it makes me good. But at least I know what the fuck is and isn't." Ozai said as he stood up and swept his hair off his shoulder before gazing down at his son with one last final sigh. "I don't know where you get this idea to follow the herd but maybe it's because you're trying to fit in when you're two things that shouldn't have mixed in a world that will only let you choose one side or the other. Perhaps, you should do like the rest of us and be neither."

The Phoenix King leaves his son to dwell on his words as he goes to see Katara.

The waterbender was literally cooing over her infant son as a Fire Nation servant and Zuko watched and conversated.

"Do you really think it is wise to keep a child from its mother?" Ozai asked as he entered the room.

Zuko looked up and scoffed as he held his hands behind his back, "No one asked you."

Katara stood with a smile as she walked up to Ozai while holding Ryu in her arms. "He's better off with Zuko than in the north, don't you agree?"

Gazing down at the waterbender and her big blue eyes, Ozai forced himself to look away, casting his gaze down at his grandson.

"Agreed." He said before absent-mindedly telling her that he would send her back north with a baby.

Everyone present stared wide eyed at Ozai as he didn't seem to have noticed what he had just said.

"I think Ryu needs to rest." Zuko said and went to take his son from Katara. As he did, he glanced at his father with disgust and brushed shoulders with him as he passed by. Tomoe quickly followed after the Fire Lord but not before bowing to the Phoenix King.

Alone, Katara raised her hand to Ozai's face. "What's wrong?"

"Hmm?" Snapping out of his daze.

"You're talking nonsense." Katara pulled back her hand and tilted her head at him, "Sending me back North with a baby."

Ozai's eyes widened. "What?"

Laughing, "I thought surely you'd want me to stay here with one." She teased and turned around to walk back to where she had been sitting on the lounge chair.

Following her with his eyes, Ozai watched as she laid across it. "Don't tease me, waterbender. I might take you seriously."

"You're the one that mentioned it. Besides, I don't want anymore for a while. Three is a good number." She said.

"You still have less than me." He casually walked over to her and sat at the foot of the lounge chair, laying his hand on her thigh.

Eyeing him seductively as she bit her lip, Katara pulled his hand from her thigh up to her breast. Ozai smirked as he chuckled and moved his hand away from her breast.

"You should take a cold shower, Katara." He told her as he pulled away from her.

But Katara wasn't taking no as an answer and grabbed him from behind, pulling him back down onto the lounge chair with her. She maneuvered herself on top and Ozai pretty much gave in, letting her have her way with him.

"No more babies, Ozai." She told him as her lips hovered over his.

Already taken over with lust, "Okay, sure. No babies." He pulled her back to his lips.

….

The next few days, Katara couldn't get enough of Ozai. Literally jumped him every chance she got and lucky for her, he obliged her every time. On his desk and floor of his office. Against the pillars in the hallways. In a servant's closet. A bookcase in the library. In the bushes of the gardens. Once, they held their breaths underwater in the garden pond because she refused to wait till he could carry her off to her room. They went at it in her chambers, Ozai covered her mouth as Arnook stood outside her locked door begging her to speak to him. It was cruel but Ozai wasn't above fucking a man's wife just on the other side of a door. If anything, it only turned him on more and from how wet Katara would get, he could tell she was just as turned on by it.

Eventually, their many frequent escapades became a problem as Ozai felt she was draining the life out of him. Not that that wasn't the way he had always dreamed of dying because what man didn't want to die with a woman mounted on his cock? But he couldn't actually die and Katara was getting aggressive.

The waterbender literally strangled him with her sash while riding him in his office earlier today and accidentally killed him. She had the nerve to laugh. Fortunately, he thought it was very funny. So funny that he bent her over the desk and took her anally. Her nails clawed the wood of his desk as she soaked it with her drool.

Afterwards, Ozai confronted her about her sexual frustrations. She tried to deny it, saying it was him but Ozai knew that was utter bullshit. At no point, LITERALLY, no point did he seek her out. It was Katara that had initiated every last one of their rendezvouses.

"Well, maybe I just want to spend time with you." She told him over her shoulder as she didn't bother looking at him. A little offended that he would use terms like attack him, jump him, throw herself on him, and seduce. Sure...it was true but...he made her sound like an animal in heat.

Fixing his disheveled hair, "There's something I need to tell you. Something I was going to hide from you." He said so casually.

Katara raised her brow and then furrowed them, "Hide what from me?"

Looking up at her, "Do you remember what I told you when you found I was alive?"

Nodding her head.

"And you remember about the attack that happened shortly after you showed up here was started by that same person I had mentioned?"

"Yes, but-"

"Arnook has been working with him. I believe he's been working with him since he first approached you with the proposition of marriage." Ozai informed her that it looked like things were going to get ugly but he had a plan for that. All he asked of her was to trust him from this point forward.

"I will try."

"I mean it, Katara. My plan will make me look like the enemy and I will not be able to tell you much else. You'll have to trust me."

Katara sighed as she climbed in his lap and rested her head against him, asking him what he could tell her.

Holding the waterbender in his lap, Ozai purred as he nipped at her neck causing her to giggle.

"Let's get away from this place and everyone for a few days." He told her.

Cupping his face as she rested her forehead to his, "How are we going to pull that off?"

…

A/N:

So Arnook is tied in with our main villain and it's not looking good here. Ozai has a plan...I wonder what it is?